-508 CXL. LILIACEZ (BAKER). | Chlorophytum. 
greenish-white, 4 in. long; segments linear, with a laxly 3-nerved keel. 
Stamens nearly as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, minute. 
Capsule 4 in. diam. 
Nile Land. Jur: at Kurshook Ali’s Seriba, Schweinfurth, 1745! 
47. ©. tuberosum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 332. Root-fibres 
very dense, bearing large tubers at the end. Leaves 6-10 to a stem, 
moderately firm, closely ribbed, lanceolate, glabrous, 4—1 ft. long, 4—1 in. 
broad at the middle. Peduncle shorter than the leaves. Raceme 
dense, 2-4 in. long, usually simple; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, the 
lower 6—9 lin. long ; pedicels short, ascending, articulated at the middle, 
the lower 2—3-nate. Perianth white, 4 in. long; segments oblong, 
laxly nerved on the keel. Stamens distinctly shorter than the perianth ; 
anthers 4 in. long, longer than the filaments. Capsule obovoid, $ in. 
long.— Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 161. Anthericum ornithogaloides, 
Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 332. Phalangium ornithogaloides, 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 294. 
Nile Zand. Eritrea: Habab, Hildebrandt, 376! Galabat : Matamma, Schwein- 
JSurth, 6! Steudner, 455! Abyssinia: Samen; on the sides of a mountain near 
Derragonsel, Schimper, 1261! Wöchni, Steudner, 456! and without precise locality, 
Schimper, 561! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; Kilimanjaro ; below Marangu, 3000 ft.» 
Volkens, 2163 ! 
Also in Peninsular India. 
48. C. suffruticosum, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 326. Rootstock 
as thick as a man’s finger. Leaves a dozen or more in a radical rosette, 
moderately firm, glabrous, 14-2 ft. long, 4—3 in. broad at the middle, 
acuminate, closely ribbed. Peduncle leafless, terete, glabrous, 1 ft. long. 
Racemes simple, dense, 2-3 in. long; pedicels very short, ascending, 
articulated at the middle, the lower 2-3-nate; bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate, the lower 4 in. long. Perianth 4 in. long; segments white, 
3-nerved in the brown keel. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; 
anthers large, linear; filaments short. 
Wile Land. British East Africa : Nyika country, near Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
49. C. rhizomatosum, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 230. 
Rootstock vertical, } in. diam., bearing many superposed relics of old 
leaves. Produced leaves about 6 to a stem, firm, linear, acuminate, 
glabrous, closely ribbed, not petiolate, 6—9 in. long, }-} in. broad. 
Peduncle slender, subterete, leafless, shorter than the leaves. Racemes 
2, lax, erect, 3—4 in. long; bracts small, ovate, cuspidate, white, scariose ; 
pedicels very short, the lower geminate. :Perianth } in. long ; segments 
oblong, obtuse, white with a laxly 3-nerved brown keel. Anthers linear, 
% in. long; filaments very short. 
Mozamb. Dist, Zanzibar, cultivated specimen, Kirk ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, August, 1885. 
May be an Anthericum. 
